Breeding heifers

[lithuanian farmer]

Have four Limox heifers, 3- 23-24 months old, one - 19months old, not bred yet. Going to breed them all in June-July, will be bred by the new Limousine bull. Will leave the younger(the black one) for ourselves and will try to sell other three for somebody for ~1000eur each.
The black one is out of Angusx cow, which this year had 160lbs bull calf- full brother for the heifer, so quite interesting what size of calves she'll have. She was born ~95lbs.
The yellow one is out of Charolais x dairy cow, which is 13 years old now, calving very easily, has plenty of milk.
The darker red is 7/8Limo, the 1st calf for the cow. Cow has a very nice udder.
The lighter red is out of very young cow, which had this heifer at 15months age. The cow has 25%Angus, abit less Limousine and Charolais. The cow had her 2nd calf this year, heifer again. Despite her young age she has a very nice avarage size udder.
All heifers are very friendly and comes for a scratch.

 

[lithuanian farmer]

 

[frieghttrain]

I'd take that dark red heifer for that price to bad i'm over seas.

 

[ClinchValley]

I really like them. All but the horns. But would still keep them if we had them here.

 

[Nesikep]

I like them, horns and all.. Meaty butts and feminine features.

 

[lithuanian farmer]

Thank you. If we wouldn't need money for the land buying we'd probably leave the light red heifer for ourselves or maybe even them all.
These photos were taken a couple weeks ago, so now girls got even thicker on grass. Hopefully they'll be bought by somebody and will have a good home.

 

[tncattle]

What price do you expect to get in your neck of the woods? Just curious.

 

[Son of Butch]

What price do you expect to get in your neck of the woods? Just curious.

Come on.... learn to read....he clearly stated $1000 euro each and that = about $1125 per head in Tennessee.

 

[tncattle]

What price do you expect to get in your neck of the woods? Just curious.

Come on.... learn to read....he clearly stated $1000 euro each and that = about $1125 per head in Tennessee.

Sorry SOB, I just learned to write last week. From now on I'll consult with you before posting so as not to offend your state of mind. :banana:

 

[ClinchValley]

Go big ORANGE!

 

[lithuanian farmer]

Don't want to sell for less than we'd get if sold them to the meat factory.
At the moment look at the adds of the pregnant heifers. A lot of dairy heifers for sale are ~600-700eur, have seen a few beefxdairy heifers for a similar. The biggest price is for purebred heifers. My mum is quite pessimistic and says that the price for these three girls might be too high for some people. I think these girls are quite good looking, their sire is not bad and the bull they'll be bred by isn't bad, also they have alot of beef on them: one 75%, another 87.5% and the third almost 91%, so can't sell them for lower price. They are worth their price.

 

[midTN_Brangusman]

Go big ORANGE!

I think I hear Ol Rocky Top! GBO

 

[lithuanian farmer]

All heifers are with the bull for a couple weeks now. Hopefully the ones which we want to sell are incalf already.
Girls now look better than in spring. Here are some recent photos of them.

 

[lithuanian farmer]

 

[creekdrive]

Looking good! Those are some big beefy girls.

 

[Red Bull Breeder]

Nice heifers. Seems to me that should be a good price. But we are a long ways apart.

 

[holm25]

There is something about that light red one I just LOVE! They are amazing animals!

 

[lithuanian farmer]

Thank you.
Decided to sell only two from these girls: the red heifer, which looks like purebred Limousine and a golden heifer. All other 4 will stay with us. Two heifers with white marks on foreheads should calve in January- February. Now both should weigh ~1400lbs. The black one, light red and both for sale should calve in late March- April, weight ~1300-1350lbs now.
Have put an add for those two heifers this morning. Hopefully somebody will buy them and we won't need to slaughter them.

 

[lithuanian farmer]

Sold both heifers for saleto the slaughter house. Nobody were interested in them and a few people wrote that we ask too much for them. The darker red heifer had 61% kill-out, golden heifer had 58% kill-out. Both had nearly 700lbs deadweight.
Wanted to take a photo of a bull other heifers are incalf, but got just these shots :


There are alot of flies, so cattle spent quite alot of time in the bushes.
Luckily heifers were in the better mood for a photoshoot. Can't await for their calves next year.

 

[Backbone Ranch]

Beautiful heifers! I really like the heifer on the left in the last photo